Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Tonight the Stitches in My Lips Like Angry Whiskers


Teach me the language of stones
Words furtive as animals that prowl
Suburban Mississippi the smell of burnt umber
As if all the street lights cast the same aroma
In fine pools one two three four and so on down
The otherwise dark avenue where a fox
Slouches from yard to yard pausing only to pounce
Beneath first this then that magnolia looking for
What? Some answer even god refuses to lay
Prometheus-like into these arms of mine?
Shell of a thought that heaven knows
Seduces the simple needs of a weak will gone
Down the exclusively sinuous water
Rushing in the empty blood of wisteria

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